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This Friday’s “Tag” spotlights five guys who have been good buds since grade school and now, 30 years later, are still playing that childhood game. “It’s about friendship,” said Jon Hamm, 47, who teams with Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jake Johnson as the men who like to play like boys.

The film was inspired by a 2013 Wall Street Journal article in which a reporter arrived to do “a business profile of a big executive at some corporation,” Hamm said, and ended up writing about this wild tag game.

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